A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation : exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from small canals ; and boats of two to five feet wide, containing from two to five tons burthen ; with a description of the machinery for facilitating conveyance by water through the most mountainous countries, independent of locks and aqueducts ; including observations on the great importance of water communications, with thoughts on, and designs for, aqueducts and bridges of iron and wood ; illustrated with seventeen plates

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